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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES S. ATTERBURY AND THOMAS B. ATTERBURY, OF PITTSBURG, PA.

MODE OF APPLYING LABELS TO BOTTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,665.. dated May 15,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J Arms S. ATTERBURY and THoMAs B. ATTERBURY, bothof Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and [1nproved Mode of Labeling Bottles; and we do -herebydeclare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, inaking a part of this specification, in which vFigure 1 is a front View of a bottle having the improved label appliedto it. Fig. 2 is a diametrical section of the bottle. y

Likeletters indicate like partsiu both tigures.

The object of this invention is to secure paper labels to the outsidesurfaces of bottles in a permanent manner, and at the same time toprotect the printing on such labels from erasure or obliteration whenWarm or cold wateris used to cleanse the bottles, as will be hereinafterdescribed.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand our invention, we willdescribe its coustruction and operation.

Before our invention labels have been applied to recesses formed in thesurfaces of bottles by cemeuting over the labels glass plates; but theexpense and liability of breakage of these glass plates isobjectionable.

Our invention consists iu applying paper labels c to the outsidesurfaces of bottles, and within recesses b, formed in the bottles, bymeans of a cement which will not be affected by Warm or cold water orordinary liquors or liquids. For this purpose we prefer to use a cementwhich is termed soluble glass,77 consisting of, say, fifteen parts ofsand and teu parts of potash or caustic soda and one part of charcoal,which are melted together until complete vitriticationtakes place. Themass is then pounded or pulverized and washed in cold water until theimpurities are separated. This soluble-glass cement is used to make thelabels adhere to the surfaces ot' the bottles, after which the labelsare coated or covered with this cement and allowed to dry and becomehard.

We prefer to make the depressions in the surfaces of the bottles theexact shape ot' the labels and the exact size of the labels which are 1obe applied in such depressions. will presenta neat and handsomeappearance, and also protect the surface of the label or the coatingthereon from injury.

The soluble-glass covering will also give a bright varnished appearanceto the printing on the label, and if colors be used in printing thesoluble glass will iirthese colors.

We d0 not confine our invention to the use of soluble-glass cement asany well-known cement which is not afected by hot or cold water, andwhich is suliiciently transpareifit, may

be used for attaching the labels to and covering` their surfaces uponthe bottles. We, however, prefer to use a soluble or liquid glass andlixthe labels into recesses formed in the bottles.

Ve are aware of the patent granted to Wm. N. Walton, September 23, 1862;but in this patent the label is not protected by a glass coating.

We do not claim a countersunk label which is not protected by a glass oranalogous coat- Having thus described our invention, what we claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A bottle having a label applied to a recess formed in it, and secured insuch recess, and covered by means of a solubleglass cement, as anew andimproved article of manufacture.

J. S. ATTERBURY. T. B. ATTERBURY. Witnesses:

P. G. DEvL1N,Jr., A. B. S'rEVENsON.

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